Today, my friends, I am sad. My friends are sad. I have never seen more
depressing posts on Facebook than when Whitney Houston or Michael Jackson died. The world was watching along with the United
States all night last night and all morning today, waiting for the 2016 US Presidential election
results but America has voted. Although Hillary Clinton won the popular vote,
she did not win the necessary 270 electoral votes, and Donald Trump (Yes,
Donald Trump) is the president-elect. Devastation does not even grasp my
feelings right now. And it’s not because he is a Republican or because Hillary
lost; it’s because this scary person will be in power - A person who wants to
build a physical wall to prevent immigrants from coming in; A person who wants
to ship all the illegal immigrants out who have been positively contributing to
society just because they didn’t have their paperwork and separate them from
their children; A person who wants to create even more loop holes for the
wealthy and who I can’t count on for the poor or middle class; A person who treats
all Muslims like terrorists and did not show any empathy in regards to the many
shootings of Blacks by police; And lastly (but I'm sure there's more), a person who has encouraged physical
violence and intimidation during his campaign.
It is about so much more than party lines, my friends. I
think that is what Trump voters are not understanding. Republicans have control
of the House, the Senate, and now the Presidency, but the kind of behavior I
have seen from this President-elect is not the behavior fitting of the leader
of the free world. A leader does not mock or isolate his constituents. So many
are fearing that we are going to set the country back 100 or so years in the
next 4 years. The fear is real. So it’s not just about me being sad my
candidate didn’t win. I’m sad for humanity that someone so “wild” and “insulting”
is the leader of my country.
So no, I will not be silent. I am exercising my First
Amendment right, just as many of you exercised your right to vote. If this has
been an Independent party candidate, or Ted Cruz, or any of the other
Republican candidates, I would quietly concede. But y’all picked TRUMP? Mr. No-political-experience
TRUMP? And it’s not even him – sure he’s loud and obnoxious, but at the end of
the day he’s somewhat controllable or faces impeachment. But the scary part is
the amount of people coming out in drones about being violent if you don’t
agree with them. I have never seen so much ignorance than in the last year.
It is very important for the country to unite. We have had a
rough year and just need to get back to “normal,” or whatever that is. In
January when Mr. Trump is elected, I’ll take one for the team and acknowledge
that he’s our president, but right now? I’m going to need a moment. I am going
to continue to relish in the classy Obama family until President Barack Obama’s
last day.
I am happy to live in a country with a democracy, so as much
as I don’t like the outcome, it is what it is. I am faithful that the checks
and balances the founding fathers put in play will be useful so that the
President does not try to overuse his power. I have even more reasons to get
myself and my friends more involved in local politics so that we can keep an
eye on the ‘wild child.’
And I have hope because I answer to a bigger power and I
know that God has much bigger plans than we can imagine.
It will all be ok, but
today, today I vent, so we can start anew tomorrow. You get a trump pass today; and then let's work on making sure his 'great again' is great for us too.
~My unusual political rant
